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Sid Celery

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Message 113515 - Posted: 3 Apr 2026, 0:39:28 UTC - in response to Message 113514.  

I took a very rare visit to the WCG forums to see what was being said and the credit increase was almost completely ignored
While they acknowledged a swathe of old tasks were being validated rapidly, the experienced hands weren't buying the credits at all - as if they didn't believe them for a second

It struck me there's always been this weird thing where WCG's internal credits on their website are 7 times what gets passed to Boinc (and Boincstats)
Without knowing a single thing, I'm wondering whether something's going wrong, so the divide-by-seven thing has stopped happening?
I'm appreciating the credits, but that would explain a lot and I'd believe 3m credits a lot more than the 21m I'm disconcertingly being awarded
Obviously, I'm just guessing based on nothing. I have no idea

All recent credits have been withdrawn and, having re-read their forum thread, I think they actually had it sussed quite early on, but I couldn't follow the discussion well enough first time around.
Let's hope their second attempt goes better (and mine tbf)
My Boinc WCG credits are back down from 54.5m to where they started before the weekend - 35,655,547
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Message 113516 - Posted: 4 Apr 2026, 2:03:13 UTC - in response to Message 113421.  

On a linux box ( - mine is Linux Mint 22.3), an easy way to poll for new rosetta tasks is using
a crontab entry - I use this
crontab -e
then add -

# Update BOINC's Rosetta Project every 2 Minutes to catch stray WUs
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/boinccmd --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update

I see you're trying also trying the Denis project - I don't think I've seen any activity since
June 2025 on this one. Einstein always seems to have Work Units available though, as
does WCG when it's up.
I try to crunch on Cancer oriented research, as my wife, and mom both died of cancer,
and I'm also struggling with leukemia. I'm glad research like WCG/Folding@Home are still
going strong. FAH even seems to be looking at the KRAS protein involved in a lot of cancers.
I hope us crunchers can really help those researchers!
Anyway try a simple cron job for updating - no need for scripts on linux!
Ian


https://www.sidock.si/sidock/ is doing some Chemistry related stuff as well
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Sid Celery

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Message 113532 - Posted: 10 Apr 2026, 12:56:06 UTC

SiDock has just come back.
All transfers uploaded, tasks sent and 8 tasks received back.
WCG still down and Rosetta still hit-and-hope
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Bryn Mawr

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Message 113533 - Posted: 10 Apr 2026, 16:48:02 UTC

A new update from WCG :-

April 9, 2026
BOINC web traffic has been blocked at the load balancer for maintenance, all BOINC scheduler, downloads, uploads will be met with HTTP 503 codes until maintenance is completed - we expect completion between April 10th and April 11th, but no earlier than 18:00 UTC on April 10th to allow projected file transfers and migration of sharded database table records between citus postgres workers to complete. We will update here and on the forums if we expect extended maintenance over the weekend. Volunteers should expect that a successful rollout during this maintenance window will increase workunit availability, and put another dent in the validation backlog.
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Sid Celery

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Message 113534 - Posted: 10 Apr 2026, 23:31:05 UTC - in response to Message 113533.  

A new update from WCG

Not back yet, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for tomorrow
Meanwhile, SiDock went back down again not long after my first results were sent back.
And some of the tasks that got sent back initially when it came back up missed deadline and weren't credited from the look of things.

Crunching tasks is like pulling teeth at the moment, even if we finally get sent some work to do
Very frustrating
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